Tag - ELW

In the recent months, the European Lisp Symposium steering committee has been seeking to improve its organization, notably on the financial level. To this aim, we created a non-profit organization in France (it's called ELSAA) which will help by providing a legal entity for all kinds of transactions.

A couple of days ago, I bought the domain name elsaa.org and started to re-install the ELS website that disappeared some time ago. I also took the opportunity to move the pages of the former European Lisp Workshop there (european-lisp-workshop.org now points to it). If you want to access the ELS pages, you can do so right now by using this URL: http://els.elsaa.org. The domain name european-lisp-symposium.org has not been redirected yet, but this will come soon I hope.

Important Dates===============Submission deadline: April 19, 2010Notification of acceptance: May 05, 2010ECOOP early registration deadline: May 10, 20107th European Lisp Workshop: June 21 or 22, 2010 (tbdl)

Lisp, one of the eldest computer languages still in use today, isgaining momentum again. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extendthe language or even to implement entirely new dialects withoutstarting from scratch, making it the ideal candidate for writingDomain Specific Languages. Common Lisp, with the Common Lisp ObjectSystem (CLOS), was the first object-oriented programming language toreceive an ANSI standard and remains the most complete and advancedobject system of any programming language, while influencing manyother object-oriented programming languages that followed.

This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-basedlanguages in research, industry and education. We solicitcontributions that discuss the opportunities Lisp provides to captureand enhance the possibilities in software engineering. We want topromote lively discussion between researchers proposing new approachesand practitioners reporting on their experience with the strengths andlimitations of current Lisp technologies.

The workshop will have two components: there will be formal talks, andinteractive turorial/demo/coding sessions.

Papers======Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutesand half an hour; additional time will be given for questions andanswers. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

Interactive Tutorial/Demo/Coding Sessions=========================================Additionally, we invite less formal talks in the form of interactivetutorial/demo/coding sessions. The purpose of these sessions is bothto demonstrate and receive feedback on any interesting Lisp system,either stable or under development. Being less formal than technicalpaper presentations, these sessions are expected to be highlyinteractive.

- a short essay (5 pages) defending a position about where research, practice or education based on Lisp should be heading in the near future,

- a proposal for an interactive tutorial/demo/coding session (1-2 pages) describing the involved library or application, and the subject of the session.

Papers (both long and short) should be formatted following the ACM SIGSguidelines and include ACM classification categories and terms (see below).Authors will later be required to sign an ACM copyright form, as the workshopproceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

As almost every participant I believe, my opinion is that the lightning talks were a great idea in the first place, and also a great success.

At the very last minute, I changed my mind about the contents. I got a bit bored with too much Lisp technical stuff and decided I would talk about Lisp, Jazz and Aïkido for a change (see the corresponding Sci-Blog entry). Some people did like the idea and I got several very interesting conversations after that. It's always cool to meet other lispers that are musicians as well, and even martial arts practitioners !

I'll keep the Clon stuff for the European Lisp Workshop instead, and I think I will give a tutorial on it there.

2009 Special News=================This year, and for the first time, the workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Also, the workshop will feature interactive tutorial/demo/coding sessions (see below).

Lisp, one of the eldest computer languages still in use today, is gaining momentum again. The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even to implement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch, making it the ideal candidate for writing Domain Specific Languages. Common Lisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the first object-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard and retains the most complete and advanced object system of any programming language, while influencing many other object-oriented programming languages that followed.

This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages in research, industry and education. We solicit contributions that discuss the opportunities Lisp provides to capture and enhance the possibilities in software engineering. We want to promote lively discussion between researchers proposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on their experience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisp technologies.

The workshop will have two components: there will be formal talks, and interactive turorial/demo/coding sessions.

Papers======Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutes and half an hour; additional time will be given for questions and answers. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

Interactive Tutorial/Demo/Coding Sessions=========================================Additionally, we invite less formal talks in the form of interactive tutorial/demo/coding sessions. The purpose of these sessions is to both demonstrate and receive feedback on any interesting Lisp system, either stable or under development. Being less formal than technical paper presentations, it is expected that these sessions be highly interactive.

Lisp is one of the oldest computer languages still in use today. Inthe decades of its existence, Lisp has been a fruitful basis forlanguage design experiments as well as the preferred implementationlanguage for applications in diverse fields.

The structure of Lisp makes it easy to extend the language or even toimplement entirely new dialects without starting from scratch. CommonLisp, with the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), was the firstobject-oriented programming language to receive an ANSI standard andretains the most complete and advanced object system of anyprogramming language, while influencing many other object-orientedprogramming languages that followed.

It is clear that Lisp is gaining momentum: there is a steadily growinginterest in Lisp itself, with numerous user groups in existenceworldwide, and in Lisp's metaprogramming notions which are beingtransferred to other languages, as for example in Aspect-OrientedProgramming, support for Domain-Specific Languages, and so on.

This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-basedlanguages in research, industry and education. We solicit papers andsuggestions for breakout groups that discuss the opportunities Lispprovides to capture and enhance the possibilities in softwareengineering. We want to promote lively discussion between researchersproposing new approaches and practitioners reporting on theirexperience with the strengths and limitations of current Lisptechnologies.

The workshop will have two components: there will beformally-presented talks, and breakout groups discussing or working onparticular topics. Additionally, there will be opportunities forshort, informal talks and demonstrations on experience reports,underappreciated results, software under development, or other topicsof interest.

Papers******

Formal presentations in the workshop should take between 20 minutesand half an hour; additional time will be given for questions andanswers. We encourage that papers be published on the website, toprovide all participants with background information in advance.